LAPD Wants To Cancel Citizens’ Concealed Carry Permits

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Lisa Marie Pane, File

Getting a concealed carry permit in California isn’t necessarily easy. In some parts, it’s not overly difficult, but in a place like Los Angeles? There, it’s virtually unheard of for regular folks to get a permit. After all, in a “may issue” state, there’s no requirement to issue one. The applicant has to demonstrate a need for a permit.

Unfortunately, “I’m a free American” isn’t considered sufficient grounds in the People’s Republic of California.

Now, to add insult to injury, the LAPD wants to cancel some citizens’ permits because it believes they don’t need them anymore.

The Los Angeles Police Department has moved to cancel most of the few remaining concealed weapons permits in civilian hands, according to new filings in a decades-old legal case.

Chief Michel Moore said in a sworn declaration he did not believe a group of people who obtained so-called CCWs as the result of a 1994 lawsuit were still entitled to the permits, because it was unlikely the individuals still faced extraordinary physical danger to their lives.

“I do not believe the continued wholesale allowance for each to possess a CCW license based on circumstances that may have existed 24 years ago is …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms